The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-04-02
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
Specially Compiled for the Toilers by an Ad-
vooate Man.

Specially Compiled for the Toilers by an Ad-
vooate Man.
During March less than ten thousand
men were out on strikes.
There, is great activity throughout the
New England iron centres. ...
The Pennsylvania Steel Works paid
out Sl56,000 as wages last month.
The Bittenbender ore mines, Ia Lehlgh
county, idle for many years, started up this
week. ..t
"A newspaper DEVOTED entirely to the
interests. Of labor will be started at Harris
burg soon. .... l.
1t is pleasing to note the steady growth
of labor organizations throughout the coun-
try generally. ...t..
AT several small municipal contests last
week in New York, the United Labor Party
was successful. .....
Davies & Thomas, pachinists, Cata-
sauqua, have increased the wages of all
their employees.
The employees of the, Bethlehem Iron
Company will contribute one days wages
each to st, Luke's Hospital.
The Hyatt school slate factory, at Ban
gor, which has been idle several months,
rcstarted with new and improved machinery
this week
An but two Of the furnaces In the Le-
high Valley are now in operation. The
ones not now in blast are at Reddington
and Parryviile All the iron companies
are shipping large quantities of iron, some
of them from one hundred to two hundred
cars per week. ,l
Grand Master Workman Powderly has
issued an order for special convention of
the Knightsof Labor Of Pennsylvania, to be
held at Harrisburg April Z, to consider
such labor legislation as the order may de-
sire to have passed at the present session of
the State Legislature.
The demand for labor is steadily in
creasing all over the country. The generel
industrial prospect is very inviting. Raw
material is scarcea and stocks are low Trade
organizations are strong and confident, and
if labor disputes can be avoided the year
will be one of phenomenal prosperity.
Navigation has been resumed on the
Lehish canal, and in short time ali the
boatmen in the Lehigh Valley will be at
work-about fifteen hundred men and boys
find constant employment from this source
during the boating season. This will give
new impetus TO business throughout the
valley
If the workingmen climb up. and
achieve higher position they are respected |
accordingly. Let them accept degredatiop
and they are despised accordingly. 1t is a |
natural law and right. When the corpora
ton strikes all feel its blows. You have
felt these blows and did not know whence
they came, and you may have prayed for
strength to bear these affections. But you
should have prayed for strength to tear
false systems down. That's the kind of
prayer to offer up; prayer for strength to
conquer, not patience to bear.
District Assembly, No. 1902, Knights
of Labor, composed of i,on-workers, has
asked all the iron establishments in Reading
for an increase of ten per cent. in wages,
on the ground that the employees should be
benefited bv the prosperous condition of
the iron trade. About two thousand men
are interested. The proprietor of the Read
ing Iron Works on Tuesday announced to
the sheet mill and rolling mill employees
that the wages of the puddlers would be
advanced from 49, to 81 per ton and all
others advanced four per cent The pro
prietors of the other mills must decide to-
day Saturday as to what they will do.
The Committee on Labor of the Con-
necticut Legislature has reported bill
which will so far towards preventing
strikes and lockouts. 1t provides for the
by the Governor of that
State, one arbitrator in each county,
who, with the Governor, shall constitute a
general Court of Arbitration, to which APP
controversies. The committee has also re-
ported another bill of interest to the work
ing classes, which provides that working
men may form guilds in each. trade, and
that these guilds may make contracts to
furnish labor by the year; taking absolute
wages or percentage of profits, or both.
The appropriation for deputies of the Blu
reau of Labor Statistics is to be increased
from $1,000 to $1,000, so that at least two
experts can be employed on
per diem to gather statistics of wages and
other facts connected with manufacturing
and to report through the bureau of the
guilds, This win enable the guilds to
know where best to inyest their labor.